Thread: Propsed limit change on big 4

Originally Posted by lugnutzz

I don’t see it helping without more enforcement. I’m not going to pay a guide $400 to catch 10 fish. I think it will hurt local economy more than it will help fish.


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Yup. My in-laws were at Sardis a couple weeks ago and caught 32 fish and didn't have a single keeper, threw every one of them back but watched a boat near them put every fish that boat caught in the cooler and then the boat met somebody on the shore to drop off the cooler before heading to the ramp. The wardens need to get out on the water and check and not just camp out on the ramp checking live wells when people come in. The locals are hip to the game and hand their fish off to somebody on the shore before heading to the ramp.

Originally Posted by BigKyd

Yup. My in-laws were at Sardis a couple weeks ago and caught 32 fish and didn't have a single keeper, threw every one of them back but watched a boat near them put every fish that boat caught in the cooler and then the boat met somebody on the shore to drop off the cooler before heading to the ramp. The wardens need to get out on the water and check and not just camp out on the ramp checking live wells when people come in. The locals are hip to the game and hand their fish off to somebody on the shore before heading to the ramp.

That’s just low down there.

800-BE Smart is the report line to GW I think. Probably too late to get them but maybe they’d think twice before next time. And ramp check wouldn’t catch that. But a campsite check might.


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Camp site check means nothing . All they need to say is that they were caught below the dam . Saw a man clean 44 at persimmon hill campground on a service table . Got to be caught on water and that is no easy task .